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I'll bite
Yes, I do feel a certain way as WEB DuBois, although to a much lesser extent. As a fiscal moderate and socially moderate liberal, I sometimes feel that I support fiscal decisions that may hurt people of color in the short run, although I'm thinking about long-term benefits. I am very pro-law enforcement, which I feel sometimes puts me at odds with the civil liberties of people of color. I am a proud American with a strong military background. I am also a black person whose ancestors, parents, grandparents, and friends were minimized and marginalized in America.
I feel it when I walk into a networking event and I automatically identify the other people of color first. I am ever cognizant that I am black, even though I have friends from many lands and of many faiths, and I live in the great American salad bowl that is the San Francisco Bay Area.
So yes, being black doesn't affect me in choosing my friends and mates, my career choices nor dictate my social activities, but the fact that I am black is always close to the surface, ever present in my mind.
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